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Hairston receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The American Music Therapy Association recognized Michelle Hairston with one of two annual Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Hairston has served as president of the American Music Therapy Association as well as in a variety of leadership positions at the state and regional levels. She is chair of the Department of Music Education and Music Therapy at the ECU School of Music.

AMTA recognized the positive impact she makes on students and cited her “exemplary service and dedication to the profession of music therapy.”(more)

Hazzard wins composition competition

Hazzard was the winner of the inaugural year of competition. His winning piece was among 40 submissions from around the country and was premiered in Tucson this spring.

ECU alum Prescott wins organ competition

Jordan Prescott (BM Music Performance, Sacred Music-Organ ‘17) won the Sixteenth Annual International Organ Competition at West Chester University in Pennsylvania on May 19. His competition program included J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in a minor, BWV 543, the Fugue in A-flat minor of Johannes Brahms, and Visions prophétiques from Jean Langalis' "Cinq Méditations sur l'Apocalypse."

Gardner joins voice faculty

Dr. Catherine Gardner will join the ECU School of Music in August 2018 as assistant professor in the Vocal Studies Department.

Soprano Gardner has been praised for her embodied singing and dramatic range in both art song and opera. Gardner is in demand as a voice teacher, adjudicator, masterclass technician and examiner (Conservatory Canada). She recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Toronto.(more information)

School of Music faculty receive teaching awards

Congratulations to School of Music faculty 2018 teaching award recipients:

Dr. Jami Rhodes, Board of Governors Award for Excellence in TeachingDr. Jocelyn Nelson, College of Fine Arts and Communication Scholar TeacherDr. William Staub, one of three ECU Alumni Association Awards For Outstanding Teaching

ECU professor Jacobs receives Guggenheim

School of Music composition and theory professor Dr. Edward Jacobs has received a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. The foundation recognized Jacobs on April 4 for his work as a composer.

Granted by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.